Continuous Improvement Research and Critical Theoretical Perspectives: Bridging Two Conversations With a Common Goal?

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This symposium brings together the Continuous Improvement and Critical Theory communities in a shared intellectual space looking toward cross-fertilization and common ground. At the center of the symposium are two interventions. The first design emerges from Critical Theory, and the other arises from Continuous Improvement. The interventions will spark dialogue that bridges a common language across the Critical Race Theory and Continuous Improvement communities. Both communities are concerned with understanding and changing systems that lead to educational mistreatment and oppression of those who live with diminished opportunity. However, each community differs in how they talk about and how they engage in intervention and improvement. The symposium will be an opportunity to cultivate common ground through conversation and critique.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Louis M. Gomez, University of California - Los Angeles

Participant

• John B. Diamond, Brown University

Papers

• Continuous Improvement Research and High School Outcomes - Sarah J. Duncan, Network for College Success

• Critical Race Praxis as School Formation: Promise, Challenges, and Contradictions - David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

Discussant

• Charles Payne, Rutgers University - Newark

Moderator

• Jennifer Lin Russell, University of Pittsburgh